Students will learn how to work with measurements and the importance of them. Each student will be given a big piece of paper and they will be instructed to make a box out of it. It does not matter what kind of box they would like it to be, a house, a jewelry box, a box for letters, the list goes on and on, but they do have to make the box out of one sheet of paper.
They will be allowed to look up ways in which other people have made a box from just one piece of paper, but they will have to make it themselves. Whether they find a box previously made with measurements for them to follow, or if they want to make their own box, they will have to make it for themselves. This will teach them that measurements are important and how one slip up can cause the box to not work correctly. Measurements are very precise for creating something like a box, so putting the students to the test will allow them to concentrate and get it right.
Students during this activity will hit the following standards:
1. S3CS3. Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and manipulating objects in scientific activities utilizing safe laboratory procedures.
a. Choose appropriate common materials for making simple mechanical constructions and repairing things.
b. Use computers, cameras and recording devices for capturing information.
c. Identifyandpracticeacceptedsafetyproceduresinmanipulatingsciencematerials and equipment.
2. MGSE3.G.1 Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.
3. MGSE3.MD.5 Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
a. A square with side length 1 unit, called “a unit square,” is said to have “one square unit” of area, and can be used to measure area.
b. A plane figure which can be covered without gaps or overlaps by n unit squares is said to have an area of n square units.
4. MGSE4.MD.1 Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec.
5. MGSE4.G.1 Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures.
6. MGSE4.G.2 Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size. Recognize right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles.
They will be allowed to look up ways in which other people have made a box from just one piece of paper, but they will have to make it themselves. Whether they find a box previously made with measurements for them to follow, or if they want to make their own box, they will have to make it for themselves. This will teach them that measurements are important and how one slip up can cause the box to not work correctly. Measurements are very precise for creating something like a box, so putting the students to the test will allow them to concentrate and get it right.
Students during this activity will hit the following standards:
1. S3CS3. Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and manipulating objects in scientific activities utilizing safe laboratory procedures.
a. Choose appropriate common materials for making simple mechanical constructions and repairing things.
b. Use computers, cameras and recording devices for capturing information.
c. Identifyandpracticeacceptedsafetyproceduresinmanipulatingsciencematerials and equipment.
2. MGSE3.G.1 Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.
3. MGSE3.MD.5 Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
a. A square with side length 1 unit, called “a unit square,” is said to have “one square unit” of area, and can be used to measure area.
b. A plane figure which can be covered without gaps or overlaps by n unit squares is said to have an area of n square units.
4. MGSE4.MD.1 Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec.
5. MGSE4.G.1 Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures.
6. MGSE4.G.2 Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size. Recognize right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles.